Matter of Estate of Herm

REYNOLDSON, Chief Justice.

This consolidated appeal arises from the combined trial of two actions in district court. In an equity action Harry Helgeson, as conservator of Clara 0. Herm and later as temporary administrator of her estate, sought to set aside a deed and to nullify numerous inter vivos transfers of assets by Clara to Arthur A. Henderson, her nephew. The other action was brought by Elise C. Wood and Judith E. Bakke, Clara’s nieces, raising objections to the probate of Clara’s purported will dated June 21, 1976. Following trial to the court, a decree was entered in the equity case…